Maxine Peake Quotes
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
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Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
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I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.
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Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.
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Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
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I love overcoming challenges and fear.
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!
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The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.
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I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
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Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
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Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
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What's wrong with wanting the best for everybody?
